Re: [RESEND PATCH] xen/blkfront: convert to blk-mq APIs

From	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RESEND PATCH] xen/blkfront: convert to blk-mq APIs
Date	2015-07-11 14:00 +0200
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On July 11, 2015 7:23:38 AM EDT, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 07:17:18AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> The 'locked' parameter can be used to tell the function to not take
>the lock.
>> 
>> But it would drop the lock in both cases.
>
>Konrad,
>
>no conditional locking please.  Split the functionality up in multiple
>functions if you may call with or without a lock held.

That would work nicely too. Thanks!

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Re: [RESEND PATCH] xen/blkfront: convert to blk-mq APIs Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2015-07-11 13:20 +0200
  Re: [RESEND PATCH] xen/blkfront: convert to blk-mq APIs Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2015-07-11 13:30 +0200
    Re: [RESEND PATCH] xen/blkfront: convert to blk-mq APIs Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2015-07-11 14:00 +0200

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